Improve own knowledge and performance in animation
Overview
This Standard is about proactively seeking out information about emerging practice in the animation industry and evaluating and improving your own practice. It includes understanding the theory and practice of the animation sector and developments within it and keeping up-to-date with things that will affect your work, such as emerging technologies, laws, technical innovations or emerging markets. It also covers knowing about your role on each production and how it relates to other roles and departments, in order to carry out your job effectively. This standard is for you if you work in animation.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
identify reliable sources of information to keep up-to-date with
changes in animation techniques, products and processes
- maintain an ongoing understanding of global, traditional, current
and emerging animation theories and practice
- monitor and interpret information about the market and your
competitors at regular intervals
- adapt to, trends, technological advancements, new innovations
and developments that will benefit your work
- use reliable information to keep up-to-date with the laws,
regulations, codes of practice, standards and guidelines that
govern animation and how they affect your work
- maintain an awareness of the current priorities, constraints and
opportunities of your work at all times
- identify the information you need to carry out your work to
expected standards on each production
- get regular and useful feedback on your performance from those
who are in a good position to judge it and to provide objective and
valid feedback
- ensure that your performance is consistent in meeting or
exceeding agreed requirements
- review and evaluate own skills, knowledge and practice against
current performance requirements
- undertake regular professional development to maintain your
knowledge in order to effectively carry out your work
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
the principal animation techniques and the processes associated
with them and an awareness of other methods, such as ink and
paint, sand, pixilation and cut out
the target audiences for animation
the history of animation, both nationally and internationally, and
the variety of animation styles and genres
film literacy and genre
cinematic style, techniques and methods
the dynamics of the animation sector and current and future
trends in animation
- how developments in other creative disciplines can strengthen
your work in animation
- the production and distribution process and variety of departments
and job roles involved and how you fit within it
the focus of different organisations offering production services
the brand, market position, departments, communication
methods, financial processes, culture and ways of working for
productions you work on
- the commercial goals and priorities of productions you work on
and how these impact on budgets and schedules
- the different functions in the productions you work on, the
responsibilities of the people within them and what aspects of
your work you need to liaise with them about
- the responsibilities of your own role and how your work relates to
and impacts on the work of others and contributes to the vision
and activities of the overall production
- legal and industry standards and codes of practice and reliable
sources of information about how to interpret them
- how to evaluate the current requirements of a work role and how
the requirements may evolve in the future
- how to evaluate the quality of your work against requirements and
plans
how to identify and use good sources of feedback on your
identified gaps in your current knowledge, understanding and
skills
- how to identify development needs to address any identified gaps
between the requirements of your work role and your current
knowledge, understanding and skills